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ALMERON MILLER, OF MEADVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

DEVICE FOR SKIMMING MILK.

SPECIFCATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 402,178, dated April 30, 1889. 'Application filed July l2, 1888. Serial No. 279,735. (Model.)

rapidly and clean without danger of mixing the cream with the milk.

The drawing is an elevation in perspective of my improved skimming device.

A represents a pail with a cover at C, which may be easily removed, and by packing and a screw or clamp placed in position in such a manner as to be air-tight in the joint.

connected with the pail A by a bent tube, H, and a flexible hose, K. to the pail by a foot-clamp, E, and a hook, E, or any other device by which it maybe easily removed from the pail or attached thereto.

B is a bail attached to the pail in the usual manner.

M is a skimmer with a long narrow mouth or opening, m, for the cream to enter. This skimmer is attached to the pail A by a fiexif ble tube or hose, L L. The end of the skimmer is bent or curved slightly, as shown in surface of the cream it'will be parallel with the surface of the cream, while the tapering This pu mp'is attached Afreely out of the skimmer.

R is a spout by which the pail may be emptied. This spout has a cork or an airtight screw-plug.

The operation of my device is as follows, to wit: The pail A is placed near the vessel containing the milk to be skimmed. The airpump D is operated with one hand and the skimmer moved over the surface of the milk with the other. This draws or sucksthe cream into the pail rapidly and with care in the use D is an air-pump with a handle at 0, and* of the skimmer, leaving the milk undisturbed.

That l claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The described device for skimming1 cream from milk, consisting of a pail provided with an air-tight cover, an air-pnmp, a tube connectin g the pail and pump, and a flexible tube connected to said pail and carrying at its outer end a curved skimmer with a long narrow mouth, all constructed'and operating substan-v tially as set forth.

ALMERON MILLER.

I Witnesses:

A. B. RICHMOND, f G. S. WYcKoEE. 

